Islamic Coins with crosses? & Greek text? YES, these existed in the 7th century Umayyad caliphate (661–750 AD & during its time a self-professed Islamic political entity), but why did these coins exist? This video will discuss these coins within their context and the reasons for their existence in a transitory period between the old Middle East and the new Islamic dominated Middle East.

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Sources and further reading:

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Borrut, Antoine & Donner, Fred McGraw (red.) (2016). Christians and others in the Umayyad state. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago

Crone, Patricia & Cook, M. A. (1977). Hagarism: the making of the Islamic world. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press

Donner, Fred McGraw (1998). Narratives of Islamic origins: the beginnings of Islamic historical writing. Princeton, N.J.: Darwin Press

Donner, Fred McGraw (2010). Muhammad and the believers: at the origins of Islam. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Evans, Helen C. and Brandie Ratliff, 2012, Byzantine and Islam: Age of Transition 7 th -9 th Century. New York: Yale University Press.

Goodwin, Tony (2018). The standing Caliph coinage. London: Archetype Publications

Karlsson, Yngve (2022). Silver coins of the muslim caliphate Volume 1 The Umayyad dynasty : including Arab-Sasanian silver coins : numismatic history of the Umayyad dynasty with identification tools and a catalogue of muslim silver coins. Göteborg: Mixtum publishing

Miles, G. C. (1959). The Iconography of Umayyad Coinage [Review of A Catalogue of the Muhammadan Coins in the British Museum, by J. Walker]. Ars Orientalis, 3, 207–213.

Nevo, Yehuda D. & Koren, Judith (2003). Crossroads to Islam: the origins of the Arab religion and the Arab state. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books

Numista, Coins from the Umayyad Caliphate

Plant, Richard, 1980, Arabic Coins and How to Read Them. London: Seaby,

Tiner, Anna (2014) A Period of Transition: Early Islamic and Umayyad Coinage, Undergraduate Student Research, Pepperdine University,

Wasserstein, David J. Coins as Agents of Cultural Definition in Islam. 14 (1993).

Own experience working with Islamicate coins

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